Jayne is Professor of Policy and Public Health in the Institute of Applied Health Research. She holds an honorary consultant contract with Public Health England.

Jayne’s research focuses on the assessment and evaluation of the health impacts of national policy initiatives. Her present main focus of enquiry is on the impact of policies directed at changing the recruitment, education and training of healthcare students and professionals.

Qualifications

Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health 2006

MD in Epidemiology 2003

MBChB (Honours) 1993

BSc (Hons) Pharmacology 1990

Biography

Jayne qualified in medicine from Birmingham University in 1993. Her postgraduate clinical training was in public health medicine, and she undertook doctoral research at Manchester University.

Jayne became a Senior Lecturer in public health at Birmingham in 2002 and was promoted to Chair in 2006.

From January 2011- December 2015, Jayne was Head of the School of Health and Population Sciences, the predecessor of the Institute of Applied Health Research.

Teaching

Postgraduate supervision

Jayne is interested in supervising doctoral research students in any area relating to the recruitment, education and training of healthcare students and professionals

If you are interesting in studying any of these subject areas please contact Jayne on the contact details above, or for any general doctoral research enquiries, please email: dr@contacts.bham.ac.uk or call +44 (0)121 414 5005.

Research

Jayne’s present research is focused on aspects of the recruitment, education and training of healthcare students and professionals. She is Chief Investigator on the SHarPS programme (www.birmingham.ac.uk\sharps).

Other activities

Current Commitments

Chair, NIHR Senior Fellowship Panel

Chair, Sub-Panel D, NIHR PGfAR programme

Member, MRC Strategic Skills Committee

Member, Cabinet Office’s Cross–Government Trial Advice Panel

External Advisor, Irish Health Research Board Research Leaders Awards

Publications

Publications relating to the recruitment, education, training and practice of healthcare workers

Medicine

Mathers JM, Sitch A, Parry JM. (2016) Longitudinal assessment of the impact of the use of the UK Clinical Aptitude Test as a ‘Threshold Test’ for application selection. Medical Education 50: 1033-44

Mathers J.M., Parry J.M., Lewis S.J., Greenfield S. (2004). What impact will an increased number of teaching general practices have on patients, doctors and medical students? Medical Education 38:1219-1228

Mathers J.M., Parry J.M., Lewis S.J., Greenfield S. (2003). What impact will the ‘conversion’ of two district general hospitals into ‘teaching hospitals’ have on doctors, medical students and patients? – Views from the field. Medical Education 37: 223-32.